Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • The Movement Against Pseudoscience Continues

    [T]heories of perception not fact.

    —“We suggest that most theories about political effects of inequality need to be either abandoned or reframed as theories about the effects of perceived inequality”—

    h/t bryan caplan http://www.nber.org/papers/w21174.pdf Source: (1) Curt Doolittle

  • The Movement Against Pseudoscience Continues

    [T]heories of perception not fact.

    —“We suggest that most theories about political effects of inequality need to be either abandoned or reframed as theories about the effects of perceived inequality”—

    h/t bryan caplan http://www.nber.org/papers/w21174.pdf Source: (1) Curt Doolittle

  • WITH CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE MEME”

    http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-people-get-more-job-interviews-2013-9″CONTRAST WITH CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE MEME”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-29 05:32:00 UTC

  • MOVEMENT AGAINST PSEUDOSCIENCE CONTINUES —“We suggest that most theories about

    http://www.nber.org/papers/w21174.pdfTHE MOVEMENT AGAINST PSEUDOSCIENCE CONTINUES

    —“We suggest that most theories about political

    effects of inequality need to be either abandoned or reframed as theories about the effects of perceived

    inequality”—

    h/t bryan caplan

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-28 02:37:00 UTC

  • SENTENCES TO TREMBLE BY From Tyler Cowen —“It is far from clear whether Europe

    SENTENCES TO TREMBLE BY

    From Tyler Cowen

    —“It is far from clear whether Europe can act as an engine of world recovery.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-27 04:51:00 UTC

  • myth of the immobile European slowly evaporates under the heat if science. Our b

    http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2015/05/high-female-mobility-in-bronze-age.htmlThe myth of the immobile European slowly evaporates under the heat if science.

    Our better classes outbred like hell.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-26 05:25:00 UTC

  • The colonies return to…. That’s a spin I haven’t heard

    http://thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-re-colonization-future-orientation.htmlOuch. The colonies return to….

    That’s a spin I haven’t heard.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-26 05:20:00 UTC

  • ERROR IN UNDERSTANDING: OPERATIONALISM IS CRITICISM, NOT JUSTIFICATION —“Opera

    http://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/Operationalism.pdfTHE ERROR IN UNDERSTANDING: OPERATIONALISM IS CRITICISM, NOT JUSTIFICATION

    —“Operational definitions were a neo-Machean development that connected with the positivism of Logical Positivism. Logical Positivism failed, with the failure of operational definitions being just one of multiple and multifarious failures of Logical Positivism more broadly.”—

    The tragedy is that operationalism failed.

    The depth of this tragedy is one of the great intellectual failures of human History.

    Operational definitions test the existential possibility of our premises.

    All those great minds failed.

    And the twentieth century was an age of pseudoscience because of it.

    What could we have done without a century of marxism, socialism, postmodernism, freudian psychology, Boazian anthropology, Keynesian justification of theft, Rawlsian deception, Cantorian sets, and the pseudoscientific attacks on physics? Would philosophy have been lost had we saved it with operations? I think so.

    ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF FAILURE

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-25 11:50:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-end-of-the-natural-family-liberalism/

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-24 02:25:00 UTC

  • ON PROGRAMMING

    http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Why%20programming%20is–.htmlMINSKY ON PROGRAMMING

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-23 03:44:00 UTC